Videos of Nobunari Oda

About

Announced his retirement from competitive skating following the 2013-14 season.

Oda is the 2006 Four Continents champion, a two-time Grand Prix Final silver medalist, the 2005 world junior champion and the 2008 Japanese champion.

In the summer of 2007, Oda was suspended from national competition until the end of October and from international competition until the end of December after being arrested in Osaka for driving under the influence of alcohol; after his suspension ended, he decided to skip the 2007-08 season entirely ... Returned to competition for the 2008-09 season, winning his first national title that year ... Coached by his mother, Noriko Odo, when in Japan, but he moved to the U.S. in 2008 to work with Nikoli Morozov ... Switched coaches following the 2010 World Championships and went back to former coach Lee Barkell ... Got married to his girlfriend Mayu in spring 2010, and their son, Shintaro, was born in October 2010 ... Is the 17th descendant of Nobunaga Oda (1534-1582), the famous Japanese warlord during the age of the civil war.

2007-08 Season Notes
SP Music: "Masquerade Waltz" by Khachaturian
FS Music: Music from the Mission Impossible soundtrack by Danny Elfman

2006-07 Season Notes
SP Music: "Fly Me to the Moon" by Bart Howard
FS Music: "Symphony No.4" by Tchaikovsky; Music from the Mission Impossible soundtrack by Danny Elfman

2005-06 Season Notes
SP Music: Music from The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Music from The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini
FS Music: Music from the Zatoichi soundtrack by Keiichi Suzuki

2004-05 Season Notes
SP Music: Music from "Super Mario Brothers" by Koji Kondo
FS Music: Music from the Zatoichi soundtrack by Keiichi Suzuki

2003-04 Season Notes
SP Music: Music from the Cinema Paradiso soundtrack by Ennio Morricone
FS Music: Music from The Rock by Nick Glennie-Smith, Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams

2002-03 Season Notes
SP Music: "El Cunbanchero" by Felix Guerrero
FS Music: Music from The Mask of Zorro by James Horner

2001-02 Season Notes
SP Music: "El Cunbanchero" by Felix Guerrero
FS Music: Music from The Mask of Zorro by James Horner